The Comics Thread

[A J Styles]

I was a big comicbook fan when i was younger and i want to get back into them again, where is the best place to buy them and what are the best ones to start off with?

[DrDoom]

Depends what you're into? Superheroes, crime, romance, westerns, slice of life?

FP runs a pretty good subscription service. If you're looking for trades then Amazon, Forbidden Planet (again) and Waterstones are quite reliable.

[A J Styles]

Mostly superheroes or crime.

[DrDoom]

Crime there's

Scalped
Kind of like Sopranos if it was set on an Indian reservation. It follows Dashiell Bad Horse as he returns to his reservation after fifteen years of absence. He finds it has become a den of corruption and crime.

Criminal
The series' story arcs are self-contained and focus on different characters, but these central characters inhabit the same world, frequent the same bar, and share a common history of two generations of crime. The best book Marvel is probably putting out.

100 Bullets
The initial plot of 100 Bullets hinges on the question of whether people would take the chance to get away with revenge. Occasionally in a given story arc, the mysterious Agent Graves approaches someone who has been the victim of a terrible wrong, and gives them the chance to set things right in the form of a nondescript attaché case containing a handgun, 100 bullets, a photograph of a person, and irrefutable evidence that this person is primarily responsible for their woes. He informs the candidate that the bullets are completely untraceable: any police investigation that uncovers one of them will stop.

Losers

Not really crime but a really good blend of espionage and action. A team of Special ops soldiers goes about ripping off the CIA after they are double crossed by them in Afghanistan.

Superheroes there's so many (comics is saturated with them unfortunately).

Ones I like right now are

Captain America
Manhunter
JSA
The Initiative
Invincible

[Memento Mori]

Is Batman RIP any good?

[Madness]

Doom off that description I need to check out 100 Bullets.

[DrDoom]

Best getting it in trades. It ends with issue #100 (oddly enough) I think it's on something like 91 now.

They were going to do a game of it a few years back. No idea what became of it.

[Memento Mori]

Is Batman RIP any good?

I have heard its gash, and really gooseberry fools on the characters!

Good thing I asked then. I was tempted to buy it.

[DrDoom]

Buy the trades of Paul Dinis recent Batman stuff if you can. The first one is called Detective and the second is Death in the City. The Joker/Robin issue makes it worth it by itself.

[Memento Mori]

Would Paul Dini be the guy who made the great early 90's cartoon ?

[DrDoom]

The good thing about them too is that most of the stories are standalone so you don't need an extensive knowledge of the character. He has a new interesting take on The Riddler too in his run.

[A J Styles]

What is the best Batman comic to buy?

[A J Styles]

I was looking at The Killing Joke on waterstones.com is £5 a good price for it?

[Madness]

Aye a fiver is a brilliant price. Be warned it's massively overrated though.

And a bit short.

The Dark Knight Returns, now that is a Batman comic.

[A J Styles]

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesw ... ku=6106305

Is that the Deluxe one.

[Madness]

Looks to me like the Deluxe one, and I don't think they sell the standard edition any more.

[Memento Mori]

The Long Halloween, Year One, and The killing joke

Good luck trying to find Year One.

[A J Styles]

I found it on Amazon.

[DrDoom]

I found it on Amazon.

They have used and new from the third party sellers but not Amazon themselves IIRC.

[Fallen Phoenix]

Waterstones also seem to have it

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesw ... ku=5650703